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Minnie Freeman was a school teacher in Nebraska during the Schoolhouse Blizzard , which hit the Plains states on January 12 , 1888 . She gained folk-heroine status for leading seventeen students almost a mile to the boarding house she lived in, after the ferocious winds blew the door in, then took the roof off the One-room Schoolhouse . She used a rope to keep the children together during the blinding storm, and she and all of her pupils survived; though Minnie lost her legs to frostbite. Many children in similar conditions around the Great Plains were not so lucky, as 235 people were killed, most of them children who couldn't get home from school. |
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